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Real or Not?

Image editing software gives you the license to change photographic reality. Students began this activity by discussing how commercial photographs are often edited to enhance the subject's appearance, creating a look quite different from reality. We talked about how this is often applied to images found in the media.

Subject Matter

Each of the year 3 classes chose a different subject to create a variety of artworks. They chose portrait photographs of themselves and photos of everyday objects to work with. Software used was Adobe PhotoShop Elements and Microsoft Paint.

Using PhotoShop Elements students enhanced and improved photographs. They cropped the image, lassoed parts of it to select and cut and paste elements from one image to another. They added and applied colourful and creative effects to their images. In order to achieve this they learnt about creating layers and applying filters.

Students comfortably used the following Photoshop Elements and Microsoft Paint features to publish their work:

• Creating a new image
• Importing pictures or shapes
• Resizing and cropping an image
• Lassoing and selecting a component of an image
• Using the text tool
• Understanding how to create and move layers
• Understanding how to find and apply filters and effects
• Using layer styles on text and other features to emphasize and highlight image aspects

Computer technology skills covered:

• File management, saves and retrieves a document
• Uses freehand drawing tools: pencil, straight and curved lines
• Uses paintbrush, paintbox or fill with colour, spray can or airbrush and eraser
• Uses text tool
• Selects objects with selection tool
• Crops, moves, resizes and deletes selected objects
• Uses fill pattern, colours or shading
• Inserts graphics from various sources, e.g. clip art, digital image
• Copies or duplicates graphic elements
• Flips, rotates objects
• Layers objects: moves to front or back
• Manages multitasking using the taskbar
• Publishing, editing and printing

Curriculum areas include:

Science & Technology

UTS2.9 Selects and uses a range of equipment, computer-based technology, materials and other resources with developing skill to enhance investigation and design tasks.

Creative Arts

VAS2.1 Represents the qualities of experiences and things that are interesting or beautiful by choosing among aspects of subject matter.
VAS2.2 Uses the forms to suggest the qualities of subject matter.
VAS2.3 Acknowledges that artists make artworks for different reasons and that various interpretations are possible.
VAS2.4 Identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciates the use of particular techniques.

PDHPE

COS2.1 Uses a variety of ways to communicate with and within groups.
GDS2.9 Describes life changes and associated feelings.

   Cheryl Hill © 2007